OUR PARISH COMMUNITY St. Mary’s, Ipswich St. Joseph’s, North Ipswich Corner Elizabeth Street and Roseberry 42 Pine Mountain Road, Parade, Ipswich 4305 North Ipswich 4305 St. Brigid’s, Rosewood Immaculate Heart of Mary, Leichhardt 1 Matthew Street, Rosewood 4340 22 Old Toowoomba Road, Leichhardt 4305 OUR PARISH OFFICE Elizabeth Street, Ipswich 4305 Mon & Tue 8:00am - 3:30pm | Wed 1:00pm - 3:30pm | Thur & Fri 8:00am - 3:30pm 07 3281 2133 | ipswich@bne.catholic.net.au | www.ipswichcatholic.com The Presentation of the Lord Year A 2 nd February 2020 DEAR PARISHIONERS, In that moment, Mary and Joseph could simply hold their breath and pray for the grace and strength to raise this child Parents who bring a new baby home also bring home their of God - and to hold their own hope out to him. hopes and dreams for the child. At the very least, they hope the child will be happy and healthy and will have a life that is better than theirs. From there, they may harbour a secret hope that the child might create the cure for some disease, write a prize-winning novel, or bring peace to the world.... I have seen this over the years, especially when I was a chaplain at a maternity hospital in Melbourne (best job I ever had, apart from here!!!) Only a week ago a friend’s daughter said to me that she hopes and prays she wouldn’t mess things up too badly as a parent! This beautiful young mum told me this was her secret hope and pleaded with me not to share that with her parents - (they live interstate and Let’s pray that we be people of hope - and as hope-filled won’t read this! ). As she spoke, she wondered what she people let’s see and experience the goodness of those might do wrong as a parent! I’m sure you can relate to this! around us. Remember, seeing goodness, we see and I can only imagine what Mary and Joseph thought when experience God! Have a good week, they brought Jesus to the Temple. Even though the angel Stephen ofm Gabriel had revealed their son’s identity, did they look at him and see the refiner’s fire of Malachi’s prophecy? A WORD FROM POPE FRANCIS It’s possible, but I think they saw him more as their beloved In the Temple...Mary and Joseph find the child. Th e angel Gabriel told Mary that her son would “be roots of their faith, for faith is not something great...[and] the Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32), but did learned from a book, but the art of living she know everything that meant? That’s hard to see when with God, learned from the experience of your child is an infant in your arms. those who have gone before us. The two What we know is this: Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to young people, in meeting two older people the Temple, and two people who had been waiting all their [Simeon and Anna], thus find themselves. lives for a sign from God took that child into their arms and — Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, into their hearts and saw in him the answer to their prayers February 2, 2018 and the fulfillment of their hopes. SACRAMENTS & PROGRAMS LAST WEEK - BUSHFIRE COLLECTION Our Parish offers the Sacraments individually and through a series Last weekend our Parish community collected $4,734.45 for of programs for children, teenagers and adults. Please contact the the Archdiocese Bushfire Appeal. Thank you for your great Parish Office for further details on 07 3281 2133 generosity! We have already forwarded these funds. FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY - OUR PARISH PRIEST PARISH OFFICE TEAM Parish Priest Fr. Stephen Bliss OFM My name is Stephen and I am a Franciscan Friar. I look forward to sbliss@bne.catholic.net.au sharing my Franciscan spirituality with our parish family. Although there have been many words crafted about Franciscan spirituality, it is essentially a spirituality marked by its simplicity; we Associate Pastors Fr. Thomas Zaranski Fr. James O’Donoghue must return to the time of Francis to understand his experience of conversion. Pastoral Associate Bernadette McAndrew 0488 008 817 Administration Staff Maree Coyne, Kathy Lund, Rosalia Risati, Bernadette Lenihan Pastoral Assistant & Benjamin Leschke Safeguarding Rep 0427 966 156 Safeguarding ipswichcatholic.com/safeguarding Information lsr.ipswich@bne.catholic.net.au “We acknowledge the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul people, the traditional custodians of the land upon which we call the Ipswich Catholic Community.”
PASTORAL MATTERS Our Parish Diary Online Diary – ipswichcatholic.com/events Monday 3 rd Feb: Weekday in Ordinary Time • 7:00am Mass, St. Joseph’s, North Ipswich • 7:00pm Mass, Mater Dei, Sadliers Crossing Tuesday 4 th Feb: Weekday in Ordinary Time • 9:00am Mass, Immaculate Heart, Leichhardt Next Sunday - 5 th Sunday in Ordinary Time • 10:30am Mass, St. Mary’s Hostel, Raceview 1 st Reading Isaiah 58:7-10 Wednesday 5 th Feb: St. Agatha, virgin, martyr 2 nd Reading 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 • 9:00am Mass, St. Mary’s, Woodend Gospel Matthew 5:13-16 • 9:30am Mass, Cabanda Nursing Home, Rosewood • 10:00am Mass, RSL Retirement Community, Grange Road OUR PARISH PRAYERS • 11:00am Funeral Prayers, Gregory Murphy, Len Russell Chapel • 5:00pm Prayer Group Meeting, Parish Office Please pray for those in our parish • 7:00pm who are sick and/or house bound, RCIA, Parish Office and for those who are dealing with Thursday 6 th Feb: St. Paul Miki and companions, martyrs struggles of any kind. We also pray • 9:00am Mass, St. Mary’s, Woodend for the following… • 9:00am Mass, St. Joseph’s, North Ipswich • 6:00pm Mass, St. Boniface, Marburg Recently Deceased: Kathlyn Ingleton, James Cummings, Annie Hayes, John Burns, Ronald Van Duin, Molly Stevens, Friday 7 th Feb: Weekday in Ordinary Time • 7:45am Louise Kerwick, Ralph Hartwell, and Pamela Hogan. Meditation Group, Parish Office, Woodend • 8:30am Anniversaries: Leslie Welland, Bill Roach and those in our Penance, Miraculous Medal, Eastern Heights • 9:00am Book of Life. Mass, Miraculous Medal, Eastern Heights • 9:30am Baptisms: Jade Parker, Maggie Kruger, and Jack Coogan are Exercise Class, Mater Dei, Sadliers Crossing being Baptised this weekend. Please keep them in your Saturday 8 th Feb: Weekday in Ordinary Time prayers. • 4:15pm Penance, Immaculate Heart, Leichhardt • 4:30pm Mass, Immaculate Heart, Leichhardt CORRECTION - RIPLEY MASS TIME THIS WEEKEND • 5:30pm Mass, Miraculous Medal, Eastern Heights • 5:00pm Penance, St. Mary’s, Woodend The correct Mass time for Minka Place Ripley this • 6:00pm Mass, St. Mary’s, Woodend Sunday afternoon is 4:30pm; not 4:00pm. We hope to see you there. Sunday 9 th Feb: 5 th Sunday in Ordinary Time • 7:30am Mass, St. Joseph’s, North Ipswich • 8:00am Minka Place Mass, St. Brigid’s, Rosewood • 8:30am Mass, St. Mary’s, Woodend Main Street, • 9:00am Baptisms, St. Joseph’s, North Ipswich • 10:00am Baptisms, St. Mary’s, Woodend Ripley, 4305 • 6:00pm Mass, St. Mary’s, Woodend LITURGICAL UPDATE OUR CHURCH COMPUTERS SACRISTANS Over recent months we have updated our church computers Setting up our churches for Mass is quite a job. Over the and have also linked them together to allow file sharing from coming weeks we will be facilitating training refreshers for the Parish Office. Computer Operators please don’t shut the all our sacristans. We will contact sacristans directly. computer down or turn the monitor off when finished. Simply COMPUTER OPERATORS lock the computer by holding the Windows Key and the Looking after our slides at Mass isn’t as easy as it might Letter L. seem. Technology often can be a little unpredictable. Recently we updated Easy Worship (our presentation program) therefore we will be re-training all our computer operators to ensure everyone is aware of a standard way of operating it. We will also cover computer troubleshooting techniques. We will contact computer operators directly. The computer will look after the rest! FLOCKNOTE, A NEW WAY TO COMMUNICATE Our weekly email has moved to Flocknote; our new communication tool. For anyone not currently receiving Stephen’s weekly email please subscribe. Our Digital News has more information than what we currently print in our paper newsletter so don’t miss out! ipswich.flocknote.com/digitalnews Privacy Policy - brisbanecatholic.org.au/privacy-policy
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